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I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society…
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Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe…
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I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and…
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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to…
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If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers…
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Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive…
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We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick…
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Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other…
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Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that…
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Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a strong bond.…
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Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play.
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Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.
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God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
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The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
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A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of…
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I’m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I’d ever realized, and just like the students…
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Creative power has to filter through our beliefs, attitudes, emotions, and habits. The more negative and constricted our beliefs and patterns are,…
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I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual…
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When you do something "selflish" you'll feel constricted and restricted. You won't be happy.
— Frederick Lenz
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I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live…
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I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as…
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